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Cherry Tree Lane
Prosperous professional couple Mike and Christine are settling in for a standard evening of wine, TV and low-level marital hostility when a ring on their doorbell changes everything. Turns out their son Sebastian is in a little trouble with some local boys, who are quite prepared to camp out and wait for him to get home ... the resulting culture-clash chamber drama is raw, revealing and nerve-splittingly tense.
Release : | 2010 |
Rating : | 4.9 |
Studio : | |
Crew : | Director, Writer, |
Cast : | Rachael Blake Jennie Jacques Tom Butcher Ashley Chin Jumayn Hunter |
Genre : | Horror Thriller Crime |
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Sorry, this movie sucks
People are voting emotionally.
I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Nine films out of ten I find unwatchable. I don't usually appreciate horror, violence or bad language, I find most of the stuff I see clichéd, unrealistic and have to switch off. Cherry Tree Lane was different, I was drawn in very quickly. The scenario is simple as it would be in real life. It aroused feelings of hate and a desire for revenge, which was fulfilled at the end. There was sophisticated use of camera and editing and yet at the same time it's very raw like a student film. I like the way it plays out in real time, that's also realistic. Though the violence happens off camera, it is still very violent. All in all powerful and disturbing. It's a shame we have to live in a world like this but this film reflects it. Okay, that's enough of that, now back to Bambi!
This film is about a home attack. A group of youths hold a couple of parents under siege while they wait for their son to return so they can "teach him a lesson".I can see from other reviews that people found the film boring and waste of time. I felt this film in some ways was too real, it made me feel very anxious all the way through. When the boy returned and the youths disappeared with the lad to what we assume was his bedroom, you could hear the noises that he was being attacked. For me it is worse then seeing it as your imagination can run wild. It is definitely an urban horror and left me feeling very disturbed. I will never watch it again.I gave it a 5/10 as I guess it did horrify me so done what it said on the tin.
A couple is terrorized by a gang who is hunting their son.Whether this film succeeds or fails depends on whether you focus on the exploitation aspects or the realism. Certainly, it has a good deal of exploitation -- senseless, amoral violence that might call to mind "Funny Games" or perhaps "Straw Dogs". If you like physical and sexual violence in your films, you might find something to like here (and you also have a disturbing taste in film).Now, that criticism aside, if you are going to make a film about home invasion, you may as well make it real. And this film succeeds on that, I think. The intruders are not superhuman or pure evil, the victims are not extremely clever. What you see here could, in fact, happen in a real home. And that is why you might want to lock your doors.The film also raised a question of race, whether or not it intended to. Two of the three intruders are black whereas the homeowners are white. I do not see this as racist in and of itself, as it makes sense that lower-class people (many of whom are black) would invade a middle or upper-class home (many of which are owned by whites). But I thought to myself: what if the film showed white kids invading a black family's home? Particularly the sexual aspect. Would that raise the issue of race? But even bringing this up probably puts more credit into the film than there deserves to be. Ultimately, it is a gritty, dirty exploitation film, and one that will probably not leave you feeling good about yourself.
You know that feeling when the film suddenly stops short, you're left with no closure or satisfaction, and as the credits start to roll you begin to wonder why you watched this movie in the first place? This movie leaves that you with that awful taste after watching it. The majority of it takes place within a living room, alongside mindless distractions and unnecessary violence that prolongs an end to this horrid movie; the plot seems to be going no where. And you're continually wondering when this slow, drawn-out buildup finally leads to a climax or resolution, but it is very anti-climatic.I would describe it to the likes of a teenager's first sexual experience; awkward, the other never feeling satisfied or seeing a climax, and a long sigh of disappointment immediately after.